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by RadicalEd0 » Wed Feb 05, 2003 7:50 pm
lolo
I forgot one monumental thing to mention: karma
I think it fits in with the theme of this thread pretty well. Karma is basically a universal balancer. Not a deity or specific intelligence, just a force operating to keep all energies in check. Retaining the yin and the yang of this existance.
Breaking from karma for a second, the judgmental nature of death and the idea of your sins or good acts getting you into heaven vs hell comes from a very scientific and factual natural phenomenon of Akasa, the astral, the plane just above our physical.
(Oh yeah, if you've been following you'll see the sephirothic system is about these differentiated existances and states of consciousness. Kether, crown, being the plane of pure spirit, Malkuth, at the very bottom of the chart, being the physical, the material and so on and so forth. The jewish kabalah is great in meaning, although it takes everything from the eastern kabalah and ancient texts and makes it phallic or otherwise related to sex :\ silly jews)
ugh, a nested digression, I apoligise. Back to the idea of being punished after death for your sins.
According to my learnings: at death the astral body (and all higher subtle bodies within) becomes completely separated from the physical, and of course the physical becomes a dead shell of the vehicle for this plane that it was. Since the astral, and its base element ether, are sensitive to thought energies (everything in the astral is thought), as you live your life you propagate your ether with the vibrations and natures of your actions and thoughts. If you go around raping children or murdering hatefully you're going to be a giant glob of astral mud, the low physical desires and otherwise negative emotions tie you to low vibrations and fill your astral self with coarse matter. On the other hand, you go around being well natured, loving, not ruled by animalistic desires and otherwise engaging high vibration thoughts you're going to be filled with finer, refined matter when you croak and are left travelling around in the astral. Obviously, if you're shrouded in etheric horseshit you're only going to be able to see and operate on the lower parts of the astral and otherwise intercept low vibrations and interact with coarse low matter. Hell. On the other hand, if you're not tied down vibration wise you're free to do whatever until your astral body fades away as it does after a time.
However, you arent trapped in the former hellish state forever. Without the physical body as an energetic anchor, the astral body is slowly 'dying' or being worn away as well. As the chunky layers of astral mud are worn away you are refined and 'ascend' at least from your point of view, again, until the astral fades and consciousness lapses into the next higher state.
Eventually you reach nirvana, review the previous life and benefit from its diverse experiences, and then go do the whole damn thing over again and again until you've overcome all the vices of the physical and can go on to become a god :\
Thats one explanation of the heaven/hell and judgement/punishment idealology that most religions carry with them today.
In the end, nobody judges your actions, you make your own concequences.
And finally back to karma, the balancer, karma is intertwined with fate and destiny and the like. On the small scale of individual man and his journey its what if you were a grade-A asshole last lifetime causes you to end up a homeless fat guy with aids and an IQ of 93 in the next. Its what when the intelligent forces who decided against creation caused them to be delayed so that while humans will be gods by the 7th round, theyll only be barely becoming human and of course will get shut out by the whole universe closing back up thing.
Thats the basics of it in condensed version :\
If you think I'm kidding, I've got a book about the creation of the universe thats 600 pages and a second volume about the origins of man thats 800 :\
Not really. In fact its commen among all religions to go out and hunt for converts. I could be specific, but there's really no need because its a common fact of human nature that when you believe something to be right, you immediately want others to believe the same.
